RIP Captain Tom

[kensalriser]

The rewritten history of Captain Tom

More than three years on from the first Covid-19 lockdown, we can begin to take a more critical view of those weird times. The ferociously enforced yet largely pointless restrictions on outdoor recreation; the bizarre Thursday night routine of Clap For Carers; the enormous amounts of time, money...

unherd.com

"Absolutely not: just look at the actual details of his service record, in India mending motor cycles: it was a cynical social media con job."

Take a closer look at what Unherd is and who funds it.

Loud and uncowed: how UnHerd owner Paul Marshall became Britain’s newest media mogul

UnHerd has quickly become one of the biggest sites for political commentary in the UK, and now the hedge fund founder behind it – who also funds GB News and donates to the Tories – is trying to add the Telegraph to a fast-growing empire. What does he really want?

www.theguardian.com

tl:dr - it's another far right venture.

 

[Jamie]

Anyone fancy a country house, price reduction on account of not now having a spa....

Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

7 bedroom detached house for sale in The Green, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire MK43 0NF, MK43 for £2,250,000. Marketed by Fine and Country, Birmingham

www.rightmove.co.uk

 

[flapland]

Wonder if pre-emptive strike to move money overseas before Charity Commission send their investigation report into the police.

 

[TheDecameron]

Anyone fancy a country house, price reduction on account of not now having a spa....

Check out this 7 bedroom detached house for sale on Rightmove

7 bedroom detached house for sale in The Green, Marston Moretaine, Bedfordshire MK43 0NF, MK43 for £2,250,000. Marketed by Fine and Country, Birmingham

www.rightmove.co.uk

I liked this image. The money shot. I bet they’re Tories, it’s their way.

 

[Tony L]

Isn’t keeping the sofas outside kind of ‘redneck’?

 

[Mick P]

Isn’t keeping the sofas outside kind of ‘redneck’?

No it isn't actually, just a modernised form of the traditional teak table and chairs which seems to have gone out of fashion now a days.

 

[Nic Robinson]

I'm convinced the whole thing was a scam. Right from the start.

 

[stevec67]

Isn’t keeping the sofas outside kind of ‘redneck’?

If it's the actual sofa, yes. If it's a piece of upholstered garden furniture that lives in an outhouse and is only dragged out for parties, no.

 

[stevec67]

I'm convinced the whole thing was a scam. Right from the start.

I think he was gen. I don't think that he thought that it would be so successful, I think that he just wanted something to do and a reason to do it. The setup afterwards, I'm with you entirely.
What paid for the big house in the countryside?

 

[twotone]

I'm convinced the whole thing was a scam. Right from the start.

Me too, the two of them should be doing jail time.

They’re still at it with the old yin’s statue in the hall and the ‘uniform chair’ complete with medal ribbons.

Anyone notice the viewing conditions?


Agent Note
Prior to viewing the property any interested parties will be rquired to fulfill the following criteria
1. Provide proof of identity for all people attending the viewing
2. Provide proof of financial ability to proceed with the purchase
3. Sign a confidentiality agreement prior to viewing, signed by all people attending the viewing

 

[twotone]

I think he was gen. I don't think that he thought that it would be so successful, I think that he just wanted something to do and a reason to do it. The setup afterwards, I'm with you entirely.
What paid for the big house in the countryside?

They‘ve owned that house since his wife died back 2007, I think. I presume he helped them buy it with his inheritance.

I think he was as dodgy as the daughter and the SIL.

No doubt it will all come out in the wash the press are sitting on stuff btw.

 

[Mick P]

They‘ve owned that house since his wife died back 2007, I think. I presume he helped them buy it with his inheritance.

I think he was as dodgy as the daughter and the SIL.

No doubt it will all come out in the wash the press are sitting on stuff btw.

He made a lot of money many years ago when he spear headed a management buy-out of a company he ran. He bought his house from the proceeds. He was a clever man.

 

[Emericanpie]

If only it had a spa, I’d snap it up!

 

[Bjork67]

Tacky.

 

[twotone]

He made a lot of money many years ago when he spear headed a management buy-out of a company he ran. He bought his house from the proceeds. He was a clever man.

Aye as I said there’s much more to him than has been disclosed thus far, his military record is ‘interesting’.

 

[flutteringwow]

Isn’t keeping the sofas outside kind of ‘redneck’?

The servants bring them out.

 

[nmtjb]

Isn’t keeping the sofas outside kind of ‘redneck’?

Just the sort of place for a swinging party I reckon. The massive outdoor kitchen range is also very tasteful. But where’s the hot tub? Should be a good taste dept. in EH that vets any prospective purchaser of a listed building.

 

[dweezil]

Isn’t keeping the sofas outside kind of ‘redneck’?

I thought it was defined as bourgeois, plants indoors and furniture in the garden.

Something i aspire to but my OH has herbicidal fingers.

 

[TheDecameron]

I'm convinced the whole thing was a scam. Right from the start.

It was certainly one of the most well executed pieces of PR I’ve ever seen. I mean, it could also have just been a lovely, joyous, spontaneous expression picked up by the media then going viral as they say.

 

[TheDecameron]

Just the sort of place for a swinging party I reckon. The massive outdoor kitchen range is also very tasteful. But where’s the hot tub? Should be a good taste dept. in EH that vets any prospective purchaser of a listed building.

Think she was trying to be discrete- keeping ay ‘spa activities’ indoors and away from prying eyes.